Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-11-18
IELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
In REitsns Of tho Principal Events Nov
Attracting Pablo Interest


gan, and thirty lives were lost.
Jenny Lind, the celebrated Swedish
singer, is dead, aged 66 years. she
had been seriously ill for some weeks
Sixteen thousand miners have struck
work in the Betrinage district, Ger
many. A renewal OF rioting is feared.
No less than dozen small schooners
and barges have been reported as
wrecked during the same storm on
Lake Superior.
John Hodel, "A silk. weaver living at
Hebron, Conn, killed his wife and the
set fire to the house. Two children
were burned to death.
1t is reported that the British bark,
Temple Bar, bound for Rio Janelro,
foundered in Bristol channel, and the
crew, numbering eighteen, were lost.
The French steamer Hindoosfana,
which arrived at Marseilles from New
York, took freand was entirely burned.
She had 300 tons OF merchandise on
board. All was destroyed.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
in lead mine at Matlock. County
Derby, Ireland. Twenty-Five men
were in the pit at the time. Five dead
bodies have already been recovered.
Advices from Warsaw state that the
town Of Kusin, in the province OF
Minsk, WIS totally destroyed by fire.
o,,I Eftxy h1t,anu and a
number of stores were burned, and
many lives lost.
Martha M. Crockett has been SEN
fenced to state prison for life for the
murder of her husband last December,
by administering poison in fried APP
Piles, at Belfast, Me. She received her
sentence stolidly.
The steam launch Mary burst her
boiler at New York city, killing John
and Patrick Cunningham, brothers.
Carl E. Schmidt, owner of the launch,
was blown into the river, but WAS
saved. Several others were badly
bruised.
An engine on the Fort Wayne rail
road struck street car at Federal
street crossing in Allegheny city, Pa,
and two passengers who jumped from
the cars were caught under the wheels
of the engine and ground to death.
Those remaining on the car were not
injured.
Count DeLesseps has announced TO
the Academy of Science that the Pam
anna canal will be opened February 80,
1890. The work will not then be en-
tirely completed, but the passage will
be free for twenty ships a day. 1t is
estimated that the traffic will produce
an annual revenue of from 90000,000
to 00,000,0 600 francs.
A disastrous explosion occurred at
one of the packing houses of the At
lantic dynamite works, near McCains-
vile, n. j. -Four men were instantly
killed and three are missing. The
names of the dead men are John Fan
cher, H. Todd, Fred McDeed and his
brother Philip. The missing men are
believed to have been in the vicinity of
the mill at the time Of the explosion,
and they cannot now be found.
George King, who resides in Frank
lin parish, ] a, gave dance and sup
per at his residence. After supper was
nearly over, all the guests We're taken
violently i'll. A doctor was sent for
and said they were poisoned, but did
all he could for them. Since then six
whites and one colored person have
died, and all the Others are seriously
i'll. No motive can be assigned for the
dastardly deed. The cock is not sus-
pected, as she is dangerously sick, and
her husband and child are dead.
Gov Swineford, OF Alaska, in his an
nual report, estimates the value of tax
able properly in the territory at $l0,-
600, 600, exclusive of the Alaska Com
mercial Companys establishment on
the Seal Islands. The increase, he
says, will be rapid so soon as congress,
by necessary legislation, gives encour-
agement to the settlement of public
lands. He says there is a very con-
siderable acreage of tillable land in
Southeastern Alaska with a soil that
produces the most luxurious vegeta.
ton, the fact being that no one comes
into the territory with belief that
either the soil or climate is adapted tn
either agricultural or horticd ltural
pursuits, but the few experiments that
have been made leave TO room for
doubt that all the cereals, except corn,
can be grown to perfection in many
sections. AS to stock raising, he saws
the winters of Southeastern Alaska are
much milder than those of Montana
Wyoming and Dakota, and the seasons
altogether are quite well adapted to
this industry. The governor says won.
derful results are being achieved in
mining, showing the territory to be
rich in precious metals. The governor
says 1t Is reported that Mr.. Ogilyie
who was sent out by the Dominion
government last spring to locate the
boundary line between Alaska and the
Northwest territory, claims that some
Of the new gold fields are in British
territory, and has suggested that ON
the strength of his report his govern.
ment Is likely to attempt, next sum
mer, collections of miners license. pro-
vlded for In the Canadian law, The
governor says any attempt OF this kind
VIII be resisted by the miners, a large
majority of whom are American citi.
zehs, and if persisted in will certainly
end in bloodshed, and suggests that in
view OF the imminent danger of such
troubles, the recommendation 10 con.
gress IN behalf of joint commission,